After the current reality of the cemetery and the hypothesis that there were still living people in the Nightmare Realm came to Leo's mind, Leo couldn't help but think of the fragments of the nightmare ghost he had obtained before his death.

In the fragments, when the Nightmare was still alive, when he fell into the Nightmare Realm, he appeared alone in a village with very old houses, and the people of that village were also dressed in ancient clothes. He was then captured by the people of the village, burned to death, and sacrificed, then surrounded by a thick fog, turned into a nightmare, and returned to the projection of 9 Golden Oak Street in the Nightmare Realm.

In this way, the people that the villa security guard saw before his death should all be living people, and it is very likely that they were ancient villages that lived in the Miria swamp in the past and were inadvertently swept into the Nightmare Realm. Some of these villages have died as a result of the Dream Spirits, while others have survived, remaining almost uncivilized.

It's just that from those memories, it is not difficult to see that the people in those villages seem to be very unfriendly to outsiders, and they use them directly to sacrifice after they are caught.

Leo didn't know if the young man in the grave keeper's hut was as unfriendly to outsiders as the people from the old villages, but he still chose to make contact with him, and if the contact was unsuccessful, he would directly use spiritism to extract his spiritual memories and learn about the situation here, and then go to find the wasteland shaman and trample around.

Once the decision was made, Leo walked towards the grave keeper's hut, and the spirit net kept an eye out for the young man's movements in the hut.

The young man was puzzled and nervous about the sudden disappearance of the barking of the dog, and from time to time he saw that he looked through the peephole to check the situation outside, and added firewood to the fireplace to make the fire burn more vigorously.

When Leo walked to the grave keeper's hut, the nervous youth was adding firewood to the stove for the third time, and the knock made by Leo make the young man who had reached the point of being a soldier sit on the ground in fright, and the fingers on the trigger of the mechanical crossbow were pulled due to uncontrolled nervous shaking.

With a few whooshing sounds, several circular saw blades shot out of the crossbow and struck the walls of the room, settling into the wood, the blades vibrating as the force did not completely disappear.

"Who's? Who's out there?" the young man hurriedly took out two blades and quickly loaded the crossbow, then pointed at the door, and asked with a trembling voice.

The language spoken by the young man was not an eccentric language, but a Maresian language, which Léo had learned from the old man Rembrandt, and was barely able to use it, though not very proficient.

"A passerby. Leo lowered the hood of his fur trench coat and stood by the fire in the doorway, speaking in Mares.

Because Leo's Mares was not very proficient, and the young man's own Mares with some local accents, he didn't understand Leo's words for a while, and he was stunned for a while before realizing what Leo said.

"Passerby?" the young man looked suspicious, he never expected such an answer, let alone anyone who would run to the cemetery in the suburbs during the silver moon period.

With strong doubts in his heart, the young man cautiously walked to the door, stretched out his hand to open the baffle of the peephole, and peeked out, but suddenly felt that it was a little unsafe to put his head on the peephole like this, so he picked up the iron rod next to the stove, and used the iron rod to pick open the baffle, and he looked out sideways.

Through the torch planted outside the door, the young man saw Leo's appearance clearly, and saw that the other party was not a monster, and his nervousness relaxed a little, but he did not fully trust Leo, because Leo's dress seemed a little abnormal to him, not like a person from the town.

So, the young man said cautiously, "I don't stay here, if you want to find a place to live, you can follow the path of the woods outside to the town, where you should be able to find a place for you to live." ”

Leo was well aware of the young man's concerns, and had no intention of forcibly breaking in for the time being, nor did he have the idea of using spiritism on the young man, but said patiently: "I'm not looking for a place to stay, I just want to inquire what kind of place this is?"

"Of course, this is Lake Town," the young man responded with some puzzlement when he heard Leo's inquiry, but soon he seemed to think of something, and his originally relaxed mood became nervous, and he asked in a deep voice, "Are you a foreigner?"

"I don't know if it's the kind of foreigner you say, I just got lost while traveling, and I came here while walking. Leo took two steps back, making himself look harmless, and asked curiously, "Why am I hostile at the mention of Your Excellency the Stranger?

The young man in the room did not answer, but it was not difficult to tell from the expression on his face that Leo might have guessed correctly, and it seemed that the strangers of the past had indeed done something that everyone was angry about.

In order to alleviate the current atmosphere, Leo said: "You don't need to worry about those Yubato who wandered around the cemetery just now, I have already dealt with them, and this place should be safe in a short time." ”

"What? You've already dealt with those Yubato?" Hearing Leo's words, the young man's face showed a look of surprise, although he couldn't believe it in his heart, but he thought that he hadn't heard a dog bark since just now, which made him have to believe that Yubato, who had been giving the whole town a headache for a long time, had been solved by the person in front of him.

Thinking of this, the young man seemed to realize something, and he didn't care about the danger, so he leaned over to the sniffing hole, looked Leo up and down, and when his eyes fell on the king and queen pinned to Leo's waist, his eyes lit up, and he said urgently, "Are you the night watchman?"

Hearing the young man's tone became a lot more respectful at this moment, Leo found an identity that he could use, so according to the introduction of the night's watchman's etiquette in the book, he made a gesture of greeting the night watchman, nodded and said, "Yes, I am the night watchman who is conducting a ceremonial patrol." ”

According to Veron's rules, unless it is a retired night watchman, in order to better fight against enemies such as dependents and evil god believers, the night watchman will perform a pilgrimage ritual every once in a while, traveling around the three continents. It can not only communicate with the night watchman organizations in various places, strengthen contacts, but also find new night watchman candidates and increase the team of night watchmen.

It is clear that the Night's Watch of the Nightmare Realm also retains the ritual of the pilgrimage, and does not hide the ritual from people like Velon, but generously makes the ritual public, and even such a grave keeper knows something about this ritual.

So after hearing Leo's admission, the young man didn't doubt Leo's words at all, the tension on his face instantly dissipated, replaced by a trusting expression, and didn't consider whether the person outside the door was lying, so he opened the door directly, walked out, stretched out his hand to Leo, and said, "Hello, I'm Valentin, the gravekeeper of Lake Town." ”

The most common name of Valentin in the Kingdom of Mares is usually given such a name by some underground freedmen or serfs.

The name reminded Leo of the mining tycoon of the Mares Kingdom who disappeared at the beginning, and also thought that the owner of the villa who disappeared last seemed to be from the Mares Kingdom, and he couldn't help but suspect that the person in front of him might be related to those Mares.

However, before guessing the young man's identity, Leo was also a little surprised that the young man showed such a trusting attitude based on just a few words of his own. In his opinion, this undoubtedly shows that the Night's Watch has an extraordinary reputation here, and its influence is not small, at least in the eyes of the people here, no one dares to pretend to be the Night's Watch.

"Leo Dodd, Night's Watchman. Leo didn't say too much, so as not to show his filling.

"Let's go into the house, lest we run into other monsters!" Valentin looked outside, returned to the house nervously, beckoned to Leo, and after waiting for Leo to enter the house, he immediately closed the door, and carefully looked outside through the peephole to make sure that there were no monsters, and then relaxed slightly.

Valentin asked Leo to sit at will, then found a cup, brought Leo a cup of hot water, and then asked suspiciously, "Didn't your Night's Watch Parade take place just two years ago?

"This is an impromptu pilgrimage ceremony. Leo made up a simple lie and didn't say much so that it wouldn't be exposed.

Valentin obviously didn't know what the rules of the parade were, but he had heard a few things about the pilgrimage ceremony, so he didn't have any doubts about Leo's words.

Perhaps because he had been alone here for too long, it was rare for him to have someone to talk to, or perhaps because his nervousness had been relaxed, Valentin began to take care of himself after asking Leo, "Seriously, I envy you night watchmen for having the ability to kill monsters. I was also chosen when a night watchman came to our town, but unfortunately I was the only one in my family, and I was afraid that I would die in the initiation ceremony, so I was not called a night watchman, otherwise I might have been a night watchman now. ”

Leo didn't interrupt him, but listened to the other man's chatter while drinking water, and interjected from time to time to guide the direction of the words, so that he could get more information from these words.

Soon, Leo obtained a lot of information about this Nightmare Realm from Valentin's words, giving him a certain understanding of the situation in this Nightmare Realm.

This Nightmare Realm is a dream heterotopic plane centered on the String Moon Lake, just like the Upper and Lower Quarter Moon Lakes in the Miria region, this Quarter Moon Lake is also divided into the Upper and Lower Quarter Moon Lake Area, except that the two lakes are not separated by a large piece of land, but are one, but there is a small island in the middle, where the main city of this world, Quarter Moon City, is located.

There are a total of one city and ten towns in the entire Nightmare Realm centered on the String Moon Lake, one city is the Quarter Moon City, and the ten towns are the ten towns built on the shore of the lake, because the lake can isolate the attack of monsters, so the towns are built on the lake.

With the exception of the Ten Towns, the surrounding area is full of forests, and if you go deeper into the forest, you will reach a dense fog area.

According to Valentin, if entering the forest is a life-or-death event, then entering the dense fog area has no chance of surviving at all.

However, perhaps because of the leakage of his words, Valentin mentioned that there were still villages in the Dense Fog Zone, but he seemed to be very afraid of those villages and did not want to mention them more, and Leo was suspicious and did not ask questions.

In addition, Leo also learned from Valengin that there are two forces that rule this nightmare realm, one is the Wizarding Guild of String Moon City, and the other is the Alcott family who rules the Ten Towns.

The appearance of the Wizards' Guild did not surprise Leo, after all, among the people who fell here back then were also the great wizards of the wizards' guild.

However, the wizard has become one of the forces that rule here, which makes Leo puzzled, because the wizard who fell here is definitely not the strongest existence, and it stands to reason that such a powerful ruling force as the wizarding association should not be formed.

It's just that soon the paracerebral system gave the results of the analysis, and this result directly pointed to the legend of the Upper Quarter Moon Lake District, which is half true and false.

According to the content of that legend, the first person to bring people here should have been an ancient wizard who had ruled the entire Miria Swamp and built a magnificent city, so it is likely that the wizards' guild originated from that wizard, not the pseudo-wizard of the wizards' guild he guessed, which also coincides with the knowledge of the existence of ancient wizards here.

If the Wizarding Guild was a little surprising to Leo as the ruler here, then the Alcott family, who ruled the Ten Towns, was obviously a huge surprise to fight against the Wizarding Guild.

Andrew Alcott, the builder and first owner of Nine Golden Oak Street, was also the first to go missing.

Leo had always seen Andrew as an unlucky ordinary victim, and now it seems clear that Andrew Alcott had premeditated the construction of 9 Golden Oak Street, and Andrew himself was probably not an ordinary person.

Compared to the two forces that occupy an absolute dominant position, the position of the Night's Watch is a bit better, he does not participate in any actual rule, but only takes the hunting of monsters as his own responsibility, and the station is built in the forest, and has a certain influence on various towns, and even the Quarter Moon Lake, which can be regarded as a neutral force.

In addition, perhaps because of the environment, the people here have a very deep grasp of the occult that has disappeared in Velon, and even lowly freedmen like Valentin know that the place they live in is a dream alien plane, and they know what monsters are here, how to deal with them, and so on.

As for witchcraft, clans, alien cells, and so on, they can also be told, but the only thing missing here is the most important thing, and that thing is religion.

Logically speaking, in such a harsh environment, religion is definitely the greatest weapon to calm people's hearts, and such an environment is also a hotbed for the development of religion.

If it develops according to the normal situation, even if there is a hostile force such as the Wizarding Association, religion will not disappear completely, and there should be some religious sprouts more or less, and it is not difficult to see from Valentin's speech and demeanor that he has no concept of religion in his mind at all.

This also made Leo curious, curious about what happened to the alien judge and the Orthodox high priest who also fell here, and made them disappear completely, leaving not even a trace of inheritance.